Billionaire prince uses £400,000 a year of taxpayer money to breed horses

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A new report has revealed evidence about some of the UK’s richest individuals who receive millions of pounds in farming subsidies, paid for by the taxpayer

This recent report is yet more confirmation that the current EU farming subsidy system is fraught with loopholes, and is routinely exploited by aristocrats, billionaires, and wealthy landowners to line their pockets. 

The public are rightly angry with the current formulation of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, where billions are sent to UK farmers, with a large proportion being directed to support farmers engaging in practices which are detrimental to people, animals, and the environment. 

The National Farmers Union has responded to the report by stating that “British farmers create a countryside that works for everyone”. However it’s unclear how a billionaire prince being handed £400,000 a year from the public purse to breed racehorses creates a countryside which provides any real public benefits.                                        

This report adds to the growing list of organisations and individuals who are opposed to these unconditional transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich. The National Trust, RSPB, and even 36 Tory MPs are all calling for subsidies to be used to only support farmers who provide environmental benefits. 

Brexit provides us with an opportunity to decide who and what receives public money in a domestic agricultural policy. Many of you will agree that our money should not be spent to line the pockets of already wealthy individuals, or prop up failing, unethical, and environmentally-damaging industries like animal farming. Instead we should only support farmers who provide environmental benefits, like those who grow plant-protein crops which mitigate climate-change.

Please sign our petition to support more ethical, non-animal farming, and share it widely.

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